When I picked up my girlfriend from town after the Crystal Palace game, the first question she asked me was; how was the game?

One look at my face and her next question was; how bad was it?

It was bad love, it was really bad.

In my 20 plus years of supporting the Bluebirds, I have never felt so low or seen such a pathetic excuse of a performance.

You might think this is an over-reaction, but I work hard for a living to earn a decent wage. I’m paying roughly £40-£50 a game during the season, which is about a full day’s wage.

You have these men out there, earning more in a week than I earn in a year, that I’m paying for the ‘privilege’ to watch them play.

I don’t ask for much, I want to spend my hard earned money on the club, all I want in return is effort. A performance from every single person on that pitch that says to me, I care, I want to do well for this club.

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I want to feel that if the players were not paid, they would still be out there giving everything for the club. Today, apart from one or two players, they might as well not have turned up, and been replaced with youth players who wanted to be there.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer shakes the hand of Craig Bellamy at the final whistle (Picture: Getty Images)

Lets look at Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Plain and simple, he’s not good enough to be a Premier League manager yet.

I can hear people cry, oh but he’s so lovely, he’s so charming, he goes over to the fans after a 3-0 loss against Swansea and pathetically waves apologetically at the fans. He’s a nice man.

Who cares about all that? When the fans are chanting, ‘Ole sort them out’, and the man you are turning to for inspiration, walks from the touchline and sits looking lost in the dugout, it doesn’t inspire confidence.

I’ve heard people say, oh but look at what he had to work with when he took over.

In his 18 games in charge this season, Malky Mackay earned 17 points at very nearly one point a game, while conceding 28 goals at about 1.5 goals a game.

In his 13 games in charge, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has earned eight points at 0.6 points a game, while conceding 32 goals at about 2.4 goals a game.

He has managed to build on a decent start with the same players, added his own, and has amassed less points and conceded more goals per game.

I’ll still be there next year, Cardiff City is far too ingrained in my life, but as I was walking out of the ground today, I overheard someone say as they were pointing at the new stand: ‘They might as well tear that down, no one will want to come next year after a performance like that.’